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Reactions were mixed when Janet Teasley told other health care workers she was going to West Africa to treat Ebola patients. "Now I know you're crazy," she said one doctor told her. But when he realized she was serious, he told her he admired her — and to be careful. Teasley's family, who understood her motivation, was supportive, and Teasley, a registered nurse from Chicago, was undeterred. She is spending this year's holiday season, in Liberia, treating some of the neediest patients in a country that's among the hardest hit by the deadly virus. "I came here for a purpose, and I want to see that through," Teasley said in a phone...

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Reactions were mixed when Janet Teasley told other health care workers she was going to West Africa to treat Ebola patients.
"Now I know you're crazy," she said one doctor told her. But when he realized she was serious, he told her he admired...